Sciatic Leg Pain Relief with Chiropractic – Even After Back
Surgery!
Options for relief of back pain and leg pain are surgical
and non-surgical. Relieving chiropractic care is
non-surgical and even post-surgical. A newly published paper
questioned the long-term outcomes of randomized clinical trials of
surgical microdiscectomy for lumbosacral radicular syndrome. A high-volume
spine center gathered long-term outcome reports from 246
surgical patients. The review found that 26% of patients had
a re-operation. Further, 35% of patients who reported
a negative recovery also experienced worse back
and leg pain than the 65% who had a better
recovery outcome. The authors summarized that patient selection
for surgery is important to outcomes as well as explaining
fully the chances for a less than perfect
outcome. (1) It surely comes down to the right
treatment for the right condition as well as having reasonable
expectations by all involved. We know there is a place for
conservative care and surgical care. We cooperate with great
local spine surgeons for those patients requiring their skills.
For one patient who underwent spinal surgery for cauda equina
syndrome, chiropractic care alleviated symptoms she experienced
after that surgery - low back pain and radicular leg pain – and
reduced her opioid medication use and bettered
her low limb function. (2) Luckily, there is growing
interest in the part spinal manipulation plays in easing low back pain symptoms following lumbar spine
surgery, a condition that used to be called “failed back
surgical syndrome” and today is more readily referred to as
“persistent spinal pain syndrome” or “post-surgical continued pain syndrome”
(PSCP). (3) Whatever it is termed, it is
spine-related pain that continues or occurs after spine surgery.
Cox® Technic spinal manipulation used at New Roads Chiropractic Center is garnering notice for its use and its effective
pain-relieving clinical outcome publication. In a study of 69 PSCP
patients, 81% demonstrated greater than 50% reduction
in pain levels with Cox® Technic. Two years later, 78% had sustained
pain relief of greater than 50%. (4) Non-surgical chiropractic
care at New Roads Chiropractic Center is relieving for many New Roads back and sciatic leg pain sufferers without and even
after back surgery!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. William Hoffman on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the
relieving treatment of back pain and sciatic leg pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
New Roads CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE
MONTH: Nutrition’s Role in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
The most common cause of New Roads myelopathy in the
cervical spine is cervical spondylosis. Due to chronic compression of the spine
cord and its resulting neurological disability in sufferers 55 years of age and
over, cervical spondylosis lowers sufferers’ quality of life.
Researchers wanting to help patients with this condition also
want to have some answers for them. Does nutrition play a
role in cervical myelopathy’s care, its development, and its influence on
surgical outcomes? In one review of 5835 papers of which 44 were relevant,
poorer recoveries physically and mentally as well as
complications after surgery were seen in obese patients. An unbalanced diet,
history of alcohol abuse, and malnourishment were linked to
lower post-operative outcomes, leading the researchers to explain
that nutrition may play a significant role in enhancing
the surgical outcome in degenerative cervical myelopathy patients. (5)
One beneficial nutritional approach for cervical myelopathy is olive extract as
it is documented to suppress inflammation and reduce
oxidative stress and thereby protect cervical spondylotic
myelopathy. (6) New Roads Chiropractic Center is ready to talk about this
condition and present chiropractic’s role in examining, diagnosing,
and managing cervical myelopathy.
CONTACT New Roads Chiropractic Center
Happy New Year! We are looking forward to taking
care of you in 2022!
Make your next New Roads chiropractic
appointment today. We treat sciatica non-surgically and
post-surgically and understand the nuances of cervical spine
myelopathy enough to see that nutrition is an essential piece of its treatment plan. See you soon!
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